Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flow even more. No newcomer to the Treasury, Commissioner Eble, whose home is Salt Lake City and whose political sponsor is Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, was defeated for the Utah Assembly in 1916. Later he remarked: "That's good. A victory would have changed my whole life and made me a politician." In the Army during the War he served as a captain, afterwards joining the Treasury's War Loan staff. Secretary Mellon sent him to Berlin as a Customs Agent to spot smugglers, to prepare highly complex valuation lists. In 1924 he was back...
...drawn with wit, the wit of one who sees each stave as new evidence about the fence. The staves should not repeat each other. A new fence is stiff, but it doesn't stand long before there is a movement through it, which is the trace of its life experience. The staves become notes, and as they differ the wonder of a common picket fence is revealed." Artist Henri's proteges included Rockwell Kent and the late great George Bellows. As he taught he learned, particularly from conversation with such friends as his colleagues in "The Eight" (Maurice...
...Still Life. After many moral pretenses, the actor finally drinks the champagne a richer lover has given the actress...
Back of the Schmidt ouster is of course the antagonism of private practitioners to institutional, or group, medicine as practiced by the Social Hygiene League or the more famed Life Extension Institute. To that general controversy Dr. Harris alluded directly in his inaugural address, and to the Schmidt case obliquely...
...years ago, when $80,000 was owed to Mead Paper Co. of Dayton, Ohio, that company had to take over Farm Life. T. W. LeQuatte, onetime editor of very successful Successful Farming, was brought in, made publisher. Founder Taylor, septuagenarian, retired, soon was put in the hands of a guardian. But still advertisers could not forget Farm Life's mushroom-growth circulation. Last week Publisher LeQuatte announced that unless $25,000 were raised immediately, the subscription list would be sold and Farm Life would enter bankruptcy, or would be reorganized...